Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-13
DIXIE'S EDITORS ON TOP.
MIR. DAWSON CHARMS THE NEW
YORK FnEE TRADE CLUB.

YORK FACE TRADE CLUB.
Protection FAlIacies Must Re Knock ed
Out One at "a Time and Not in u Lump
-rhe South No Champion of Save
Lahor-Henry George FsvOrs Total
Extinction of the TarlG.
NEW YORK, Jan. ia tariff reform
meeting under the auspices OF the Free
Trade Club of New York was hed to-
night at Cooper Union Hall, which was
iilled, Everett Z. Wheeler called the
meeting TO order and presented Jackson
$. Schultz as chairman of the meeting
Resolutions were presented and adopted.
They arraigned Congress for refusing TO
consider the Morrison bill, condemned its
opponents and praised its advocates.
President Cleveland and Secretary Man
ming were lauded for their statesmanlke
manner of presenting the question to
Congress. The country's industries most
needed the removal OF the tariff from raw
materials, which tariff prevented Ameri-
can laOorers from competing ou even
terms with those abroad.
PRoTECTIONIST FOLLY.
The protectlonist scheme to check the
surplus by the restriction and reduction
OF internal revenue taxes on llQuor and
tobacco was an unjust evasion OF the
tariff question, which would relieve the
people of none of the burdens under which
they now la Dor. The alternative PROPOSE
tion advanced by the protectlonists to add
sugar alone to the free list should be con-
demned now as subtle design to block
the way for the free admission of raw ma
uVS.n nlr
labor were in nowise increased by
the tariff. The high wages paid were due
to superior efficiency. Congress having
refused to consider general act, the
friends of tariff reform should submit
specific bills, and if those fail the Presi-
dent should call together N special ses-
sion the Fiirleth Congress to effect the re-
forms President Cleveland has so ably
advocated.
EDITOR DAwsON'S INTRODUCTION.
Chairman Schultz then introduced Edi-
tor f. W. Dawson, of the Charleston IS.
O. News and Courier. Mr.. Dawson was
received with rounds of applause. In
stepping to the platform he said:
b is the trst time in NV life that | have
ever mad the pleasure of addressing such an
audience north of the Potomac. / have come
here at a loss of time, and some inconvenience.
TO tell you that the people of South Carolina
are uDlbeu Win you 10 10 something 10 reduce
the cost of living. The whole people OF the
South do now realize tnat what is keeping
them poor is the enormous burden of taxa
tiOn The poor farmer Of the South, who is
dependent almost entirely upon his labor for
existence, ID pOweriess TO f. the price OF his
product because IL 10 settled by large markets
mere and abroad, and when il comes back tu
him in the shape OF a sheet for his bed. dress
for his wife, or spool of thread, he finds that
it has doubled its value because ne is not in a
position to weave or manufacture 1t himself.
A CONTINUED SQUEEZE.
Some think that the cause of the great
poverty of the South is due to a rebellous
feeling among the people, an apathy, if may
so call IT, to q return to the ways of peace.
sod knows one revolution IN a generation is
quite enough. The farmers of the South are
not re0elious. All they wan is that the taxes
be so reduced As to allow them to i've.
You can scarcely credit that the poor farm
ers nay from 80 to 40 per cent. per annum for
their money. ! know how in this great city
YOU have what is termed "a squeeze" in fnan-
cial matters, but nothing Ike the continued
squeeze" that The farmers OF the South have
to continually suffer.
NECESSITY FOR THE SOUTH.
1t is therefore necessity not only for the
South but for tho North that something should
be done TO alleviate the condition OF this in
dissouble Union OF States-Ghat magnificent
diadem OF the wOr with not one star miss
ing. The people Of the south do not see the
necessity of breakneck speed IN paying off the
were sent TO South Carolina we could get
along in spite of cyclones, earthquakes and
other l,ttle annoyances. The remedies pro-
posed by the protectlonists reminds one Of an
old nursery rhy me that said:
There was man in our town,
VINO was so WOldrOus wise:
He jumped into a brlar bush,
Ana scratched out both his eyes"
In other words IL is somew hat simI ar to the
different orders of medicine, homeopathic and
allopathic.
APPLICABLE TO THE PROTECTIONIsTs
The doctors of the former argue that what
generates disease will cure disease. that ike
cures like. The latter are of the opinion that
in order to Gu; C one disease you muse get up
a Couuter disease. SO with the pr lection lists,
that II littic protection made us sick Ilttle
more protection VIII MAKE us well. Laugh
ter OF what earthly use TO the geueTal
community was the reduction OF tue in
Jernal tax on liquors and tObaccOr We
want no war taxes. With these two eXCep-
lions the import duties are lust rs nigh a.
ever. If cleanliness be next 10 sOdlness, why
should you pay as much IUr hrce cakes OF
soap as you ought to get i've iuIT Why pay
81 Is instead Of 81 for stockings for yuur
family If it were not for the enormous take
levied on imported goods?
LIQUOR TAXEs.
Compare the taxes on the greater part of
our imports with that On lquOr7 and tobacco.
aud you viii percelvc great difference.
why, liquor or tobacco are not by any
means necessities OF ME. aa any man VINO
can regulate himself well hnYws. ana in rela-
tiou TO tue tax on those c0mmO tIttes If put 10
a Vote of these ladies present. who nave hOu-
ored us with their presence, I thi / can
guess very closely what would uC he result
IL has been said tnat II any change, such a.
free trade were mad . that NrNula would
not remain in the Democratic party. ! am
aud always have been rHWocTal, and I do
not wish that Grover Clcy i nd IL the last
Democratic President ! -tai see IN the
Presidential chair. But do say that great
az has cn Nirginia's hciolsm, great as has
been her sacrifices, / say lel : ~ IN peace.
No commonW ealth o. group ,f common
,vealths n be allowed b. perpetuate a
wrong to the American pc pic. IWId
cheers.
HARD Tc BREAK IN BULK.
1t is, / kAQtp, an impossible tark TO break
down The prOtectlOutot theory in bulk no
more than you eau break down u nude OF
sticks, but we can. by takiul them In detail.
soon manage 10 have the lave amended for
the benefit Of the whole. The FIRST matter
I would suggest wOud he u tax on raw ma
terial. why. IN Alabama ana Tennessee you
can 0nd ron ami limestone SIDE by sdc Just
the same as If a carpenter through hls snop
found al his boards pluncd, or Drickllycr
found Il store OF bricks and mortar ready 10
his hand. Or " may he allowed 10 say TO
our learned brethren OF the law. ~, after buy
lug lot OF books, they found 4 lot of clients at
the same time. say, for this reaso n, II is un-
Just to give an adsanta.e Of 900 a year
TO Pennsy wanna over Alabama or Tennessee
through a q n renee In tsxation.
NO SLAVE LABOR WANTED. ete
No matter " nat may he said by any' news.
paper no matter what may be urged By any